Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [noun sg] [prep] face " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is reported that , while out riding in Wychwood Forest , he suddenly came face to face with the shade of Amy Robsart . |
| 2 | Entrenched positions may be established easily between the two with the result that claims are prepared and argued merely to prevent loss of face when in reality the matter could and should have been settled by discussion on site when the problems arose . |
| 3 | It is at the handing over of the engagement dower that the mothers finally meet face to face — or burgah to burgah . |
| 4 | If he does , he may just come face to face with himself . |
| 5 | But in a welcome departure from the impersonal world of the supermarket , with its individually cling-filmed organic vegetables , the farmer and shopper will soon come face to face . |
| 6 | The market makers who replaced the jobbers rarely meet face to face , so one rumour is as good as another . |
| 7 | The British Library is now gradually coming face to face also with another side of the electronic revolution : the question of how to acquire , preserve and make available unpublished research materials which happen to have been produced in electronic form . |
| 8 | Many people had worked on the paper for twenty years , and never once come face to face with the Editor . |
| 9 | But that is explained , partly , by the fact that Mike did the negotiations himself and they were often done face to face with Jefferson . |
| 10 | Charlie found he was continually spitting out mud and once even came face to face with a German who could n't blink . |
| 11 | CHILDREN of today come face to face with images of the past at an exhibition in a Middlesbrough museum . |
| 12 | He let the veteran British know exactly how he felt when they recently came face to face at a film festival . |
| 13 | He had a clean , bare style ; when writing he seemed to be able to slip the burden of his personality as he could never do face to face . |
| 14 | If they had done this to her possessions , what would they do if they actually came face to face with her ? |
| 15 | I spent most of the day mooching around Winnipeg , seeing a couple of owners once in a shop selling Eskimo sculptures , but never coming face to face with anyone who might know me . |